Ariel Sharon's Command and Political Pivot

Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon was a controversial military commander and right-wing political leader in Israel. Known for aggressive battlefield tactics, he gained fame during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and later commanded the 1982 invasion of Lebanon as Defense Minister. As a key leader in the Likud party, he was elected Prime Minister in 2001, adopting hardline security measures during the Second Intifada. In a historic political shift, Sharon orchestrated Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and founded the centrist Kadima party before a debilitating stroke ended his career in 2006.

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Year	Ariel Sharon
1928	Birth of Ariel Sharon (Period: February 26, 1928, Location: Kfar Malal, present-day Israel (an agricultural settlement northeast of Tel Aviv))
1953	Marriage (Ariel Sharon, Margalit Zimmermann, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1953, Location: Israel) Formation and Command of Unit 101 (Ariel Sharon, Age: 25 years old, Period: August 1953 – 1954, Location: Israel, Border Areas) Qibya Massacre (Age: 25 years old, Period: October 14–15, 1953, Location: West Bank, Qibya Village (then under Jordanian control))
1954	Appointment as Commander of the Paratroopers Brigade (Ariel Sharon, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1954–1957, Location: Israel)
1963	Marriage (Ariel Sharon, Lily Zimmermann, Age: 34 years old, Period: Circa 1963, Location: Israel)
1969	Appointment as Commander of IDF Southern Command (Ariel Sharon, Age: 40 years old, Period: 1969–1973, Location: Southern Israel, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip)
1970	Human Rights Issues regarding Clearing and Population Transfer in the Gaza Strip (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1970–1971, Location: Gaza Strip)
1973	Retirement from Military and Entry into Politics (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1973, Location: Israel)
1977	Appointment as Minister of Agriculture and Promotion of Settlement Policy (Ariel Sharon, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1977–1981, Location: Israel, West Bank, Sinai Peninsula)
1981	Appointment as Minister of Defense (Ariel Sharon, Age: 52 years old, Period: 1981–1983, Location: Israel)
1982	Sabra and Shatila Massacre (Age: 54 years old, Period: September 16–18, 1982, Location: Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps in Western Beirut, Lebanon)
1999	Appointment as Leader of Likud (Ariel Sharon, Age: 70 years old, Period: 1999, Location: Israel)
2000	Second Intifada (Age: 71 years old, Period: 2001–2006), Location: Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip) Visit to the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif and Outbreak of Second Intifada (Age: 72 years old, Period: September 28, 2000, Location: Old City of Jerusalem, Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif)
2001	Appointment as Prime Minister (Ariel Sharon, Age: 72 years old, Period: 2001–2006, Location: Israel)
2005	Implementation of the Gaza Disengagement Plan (Age: 76 years old, Period: 2005, Location: Gaza Strip and Northern West Bank) Formation of Kadima Party (Age: 77 years old, Period: November 2005, Location: Israel)
2006	Ariel Sharon's Stroke (Age: 77 years old, Period: January 4, 2006, Location: Israel)
2014	Death of Ariel Sharon (Age: 85 years old, Period: January 11, 2014 (some official statements and news reports cite January 12), Location: Ramat Gan, Israel)

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Group	List
Establishment of Israel	Golda Meir David Ben-Gurion Chaim Weizmann Moshe Dayan Yitzhak Rabin Menachem Begin Shimon Peres Levi Eshkol Ariel Sharon Farouk I Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat
Iranian Revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei Abolhassan Banisadr Mehdi Bazargan Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Beheshti Ali Shariati Sayyid Qutb Hassan al-Banna Mustafa Barzani

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